Cable-clip.



PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

W. GREGER.

GABLE CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. s, 1904.

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Patented February 28, 1905.

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WILLIAM til-REGEH, OF BARRON, WASHINGLON.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,631, dated February28, 1905.

Application filed March 3, 1904. $e1'iai No 196,257.

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Be it known that I, W ILLIAM Gasman, a citizen of the United fi-itates,and a resident of ilriarron, in the county of VVhatcom and State ofWashington, have invented a new and improved (fable-Clip, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in clips designed for engagingwith a wire cable, an object being to provide a clip that will overcomethe strain and adapted to pass over dorm-flanged sheaves and also soconstructed as to pass freely around the large grip-pulley and under theholddown-sheaves.

i will describe a cable-clip en'ihodying my invention and then point outthe novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similarcharacters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a clip embodying my invention andshowing the same in connection with a cable. Fig. 2 is a plan viewillustrating the means of making the connection between the clip andcable. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the clip, and Figs. l and 5 areopposite side views thereof.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the shank portion of the clip,having a spindle 2 at one end for engagement with a part to be drawnalong. The upper and lowersurfaces or sides of the shank i areconvergent from the spindle portion 2 -that is, the device issubstantially wedge-shaped. At its end opposite the spindle 2 it has aturndown portion 3, which is concaved on its outer side and convexed onits inner side, and this turneddown portion 3 terminates in a head l,which is round in cross-section and approximates the size of the core ofthe cable with which the device is to be engaged. The head ii: ex tendsentirely across the turned-down portion and terminates at the side ofsaid portion, so that there are no projections liable to break or bendin making sharp turns, and thus weaken 'the cable.

It will be noted. that the part 3, turned at an angle to the shank, andthe head i thereon are placed at an obtuse angle with relation to thewidth of the shank. in applying the clip to a cable the twist of thecable is to be looscued, so that the head and the portion 3 may bepassed downward between two strands of the cable that is, passed intothe cable from the top and wholly within the cable. A portion of thecore 5 of the cable is to be removed, excepting one strand thereof, asindicated at 6. The portion of the core removed will be just wide enoughto receive the head of the clip. The upper strand of the cable, asclearly indicated in Fig. 1, [its into the concavity of the portion 3,and the angular relation of the portion 3 and the head with the shankcorresponds to the spiral trend of the cable-strands.

It will be noted that the portion 3 is of a suf licient length to permitthe head to be inserted from the top of a cable, whereby the shank ofthe device is arranged above the longitudinal center of the cable, sothat it will not engage with the llange of a sheave and lift the cableout of engagement with the sheave.

Having thus descri bed my invention, .1 claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent A cable-clip comprising a shank having adownwardly-turned end portion termii'iating in a head approximating thesize of a cablecore,the ends of said head terminating at the sides ofsaid turned-down portion, the angle of said turned-down portion havingsuch re lation to the shank that said portion and the head may beinserted wholly within the cable from the upper portion thereof, thusholding the shank above the longitudinal center of the cable.

l n testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

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